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Collaborative Research: Working meetings to break down theoretical and disciplinary silos in research on change in undergraduate STEM education

协作研究：通过工作会议打破本科 STEM 教育变革研究中的理论和学科孤岛

基本信息

批准号：
1830860
负责人：
Tessa Andrews
金额：
$ 0.42万
依托单位：
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-10-01 至 2021-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1830860&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Working meetings break

项目摘要

To enhance undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education for all students, instructional practices and curricula with robust evidence of their effectiveness need to be more widely implemented in our colleges and universities. Accomplishing this goal will require institutions of higher education, their departments, and faculty members to change current policies and practices. Theories about making such changes come from diverse disciplines. The resulting complexity and breadth of the literature makes it challenging to identify and understand relevant theories. Additionally, most investigations of change in undergraduate STEM education focus on a single initiative, so the results of many studies are needed to refine theories of change and to identify approaches for meaningful change. Thus, there is a need for a rigorous, analytical synthesis of these theories and how they might be used to promote meaningful change in undergraduate STEM education. The goals of this project are to break down theoretical and disciplinary silos, and to build capacity to more effectively investigate, understand, and facilitate changes that enhance undergraduate STEM education.This Improving Undergraduate STEM Education project will convene a series of in-person and virtual meetings in which researchers who investigate systemic change in undergraduate education will synthesize and organize theories of change. In the process, these meetings will build community and enhanced capacity for research on systemic change in undergraduate STEM education. Meetings will include about 20 discipline-based education researchers from different STEM disciplines who are emerging scholars studying change, as well as national leaders in systemic change in undergraduate STEM. The work accomplished in these meetings will help investigators make better use of relevant theories of change in their STEM education research. The products of this work will be shared via journal articles as well as Wikipedia pages and the Accelerating Systemic Change Network website.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

为了加强对所有学生的本科科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育，教学实践和课程，其有效性的有力证据需要在我们的学院和大学更广泛地实施。实现这一目标将需要高等教育机构，他们的部门和教师改变目前的政策和做法。关于这种改变的理论来自不同的学科。由此产生的文献的复杂性和广度使得识别和理解相关理论具有挑战性。此外，大多数对本科STEM教育变革的调查都集中在一个单一的举措上，因此需要许多研究的结果来完善变革理论，并确定有意义的变革方法。因此，有必要对这些理论进行严格的分析综合，以及如何利用它们来促进本科STEM教育的有意义的变革。该项目的目标是打破理论和学科孤岛，并建立能力，更有效地调查，理解和促进改善本科STEM教育的变化。这个改善本科STEM教育项目将召开一系列面对面和虚拟会议，研究本科教育系统变化的研究人员将综合和组织变革理论。在此过程中，这些会议将建立社区和提高本科STEM教育系统性变革研究的能力。会议将包括来自不同STEM学科的约20名基于学科的教育研究人员，他们是研究变革的新兴学者，以及本科STEM系统变革的国家领导人。在这些会议上完成的工作将有助于研究人员在他们的STEM教育研究中更好地利用相关的变革理论。这项工作的成果将通过期刊文章以及维基百科页面和加速系统性变化网络网站分享。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。